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Read Slowly Rule

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That's because in their mind, 75 is bigger than 105.
- The quarter pounder has more meat than the third pounder because 4>3.
  
  „Ein Drittel? Nee, ich will mindestens ein Viertel.“
  ("A third? No, I want at least a quarter")
  – allegedly Horst "Schimmi" Szymaniak (German footballer in 1950s - 60s)
- It's a universal rule that anyone who references their supposed IQ like this is at most half as smart as they think they are
  
  i have an IQ-equivalent of like 120
  guess what
  i have no job, because i have autism
  
  Unfortunately I'm smart enough to know mentioning my IQ at the very least makes me come off as a pretentious prick. But I would REALLY love to just win arguments by simply having a higher IQ than sb else.
- They are in the 15th percentile. So they think they are in the top 15%
- As someone with a below-average IQ of 123, i can say that IQ doesnt measure how critical you are of your own beliefs

There is some bliss in having a universal personal pronoun w/o grammatical genders whatsoever (ő) in a languange (hungarian). Often you can even omit it altogether from a sentence.
But let's not mention the many cases...
- Yes, luckily they werent successful adding gendered words to the hungarian language in the 19. century.
- hän my beloved
  
  Alright Uralic language family, you can stop bragging now.

Steve Hofstetter. He’s known for owning trolls like this. And hecklers.
- And does it so effortlessly too 😂
  
  I love ur username

You’re they/them until you couple up, in which case you and your partner split the pronouns between them?
- I lost my pronouns in the divorce 😔
- I would like to subscribe to this level of rational social design

As someone speaking a native language in which I need to rephrase myself multiple times and need to work with multiple / and * before a sentence is both grammatically correct and perfectly gendered - I still take my time because inclusion is worth it - I just don't get why anybody could ever be upset about English gender inclusive language.
An example:
Every cyclist should wear their helmet to protect their head from injury.
Jede/r Radfahrer*In sollte seinen/ihren Helm tragen, um seinen/ihren Kopf vor Verletzungen zu schützen.
We usually tend to rephrase these sentences like this:
Alle Radfahrenden sollten Helme tragen, um das Risiko für Kopfverletzungen zu minimieren.
All cyclists should wear helmets to minimise the risk of head injuries.
- Fun fact about how stupid this outrage is: singular "they" has existed longer than singular "you" in the English language. If you refuse to use singular "they" but aren't using "thou," then you're a hypocrite.
  
  What was “you” prior to being singular?
- I don't know where you got this from or if you just invented it, but I have never heard/seen anyone mix * and /.
  People interested in gender neutral language used / before the idea of more than two genders came up. Whoever wanted to specifically include non-binary people started using _ or *.
  Also it makes little sense imo to include nb's in the subject of a sentence to go back to binary scheme in the pronouns..
  
  My highschool teacher wanted us to use * and / as given in my example. I usually rephrase myself to not having to use / that much but idk if you can just use the male or female possessive pronoun to include everyone (if you use the * at some point in the sentence to make it clear) I honestly just use the / to be super sure.
- Alle Radfahrys sollten Helme tragen, um ihren Kopf [...]. :3
  
  *Die Stadt sollte designierte Fahrradstraßen haben, damit Fahrradfahren auch ohne Helm hinreichend sicher ist.

Idk what their problem is /s

They/them is grammatically correct for singular nouns, but maybe it’s best to just use neopronouns in the case of someone (like this lady who is opposed to using someone’s correct pronouns) being difficult. But I feel people who want to be difficult are going to be difficult for whatever reason, and it’s not about the pronouns or grammar at that point.
For reference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Edit why is my comment being read uncharitably by the downvoters? Its weird behavior, I don’t get why someone would do that lol
- I think neopronouns would piss off those against the concept of non-binary or trans even more.
  
  I like the idea of inventing new pronouns, but most of the suggestions so far (like "Xe") are too silly to be taken seriously. "They/them" can come off as impersonal at times, but we seem to be more or less settling on that, so whatever.
  
  But it shouldn’t though? In a reasonable society, using neopronouns isn’t any different than using someone’s name. Yeah, I acknowledge that society isn’t reasonable some times.
- edit: below comment is in response to a previous version of the above comment before they clarified it was about the lady :)
  maybe it’s best to just use neopronouns in the case of someone ~~being difficult~~ asking
  ftfy :)
  
  I think that lady isn’t asking though? She seems argumentative to me

This is like the 5th funniest thing I've read all day. (It's been a very good day.)

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